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The many traditions of non-governmental money (2018)

• Terr_ 2y ago
  > this and a subsequent blog post will focus on the following statement: “traditionally, currency is produced by a nation's government.“ Is that a fair representation of monetary traditions? That reminds me of Debt: The First 5000 years by the late anthropologist David Graeber. Among other things, it asserts it that the typical history given to kids is wrong, namely a modernist story of civilization advancing linearly through barter -> cash -> credit.